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Friday, August 8, 2014

8-8-14 Ed Notes Online

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George Schmidt on HISTORY AND HISTORY'S DISTORTIONS
Chicago's George Schmidt is one of the founders of CORE, involved in the CTU for decades and an activist against high stakes testing long before that issue came on anyone's radar -- he was fired as a teacher for publishing the horrible CASE tests - which were discontinued after his expose. His newspaper, Substance, has been a force in Chicago schools for almost 4 decades. I learned about the exist




8-6-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: #AFT14 Convention Video - Common Core Debate - Mulgrew is Going to Punch Someone in the FaceHas anyone speaking against the common core said they don't WANT standards? .... Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater? The baby is in the bath water... Pia Payne-Shannon, Minneapolis Teacher opposing common core in rousing speech at AFT conventionI extracted a 12 minute sliver from o